poor/sad/sorry excuse for
idiom
: a poor example of
He's a sad excuse for a father.
This is a poor excuse for a term paper.
That pile of junk is a sorry excuse for a car!
Examples of poor/sad/sorry excuse for in a Sentence
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Anthony Gigantiello Go with her Brooklyn: Donald Trump is a poor excuse for a human being.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
Stuck at your desk, working from home, eating a sad excuse for a midday meal?
—Joan Niesen, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
Now our once-proud, now poor excuse for a union has chosen to divide us.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024
But in my opinion, the difficulty of these challenges would be a very poor excuse for not facing up to them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2017
Joe Biden, John Fetterman and their loved one's should not waste a moment on Carlson's passive-aggressive, bullying nonsense, a poor excuse for a human being, with no excuse for being so.
—Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
But the activists find this to be a poor excuse for drilling in places where people live, and insist that putting an end to drilling here can help lead to the end of drilling elsewhere.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
Prince Charles is a depressingly poor excuse for a future king.
—Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
Those trees might look good on paper when companies do their carbon accounting, but a tree farm is a poor excuse for a forest.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2010
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
Stuck at your desk, working from home, eating a sad excuse for a midday meal?
—Joan Niesen, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
Now our once-proud, now poor excuse for a union has chosen to divide us.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024
But in my opinion, the difficulty of these challenges would be a very poor excuse for not facing up to them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2017
Joe Biden, John Fetterman and their loved one's should not waste a moment on Carlson's passive-aggressive, bullying nonsense, a poor excuse for a human being, with no excuse for being so.
—Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
But the activists find this to be a poor excuse for drilling in places where people live, and insist that putting an end to drilling here can help lead to the end of drilling elsewhere.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
Prince Charles is a depressingly poor excuse for a future king.
—Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
Those trees might look good on paper when companies do their carbon accounting, but a tree farm is a poor excuse for a forest.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2010
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“Poor/sad/sorry excuse for.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poor%2Fsad%2Fsorry%20excuse%20for. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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